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June 1991
Statement of Facts
Lawyers A, B, C, and D agree to practice law together within a single, contiguous office space as "Law Offices of A and B." The organization and practice of the "Law Offices of A and B" is set up as follows:
Each attorney represents to his clients and the public that the attorney is a member of the firm of A and B through the use of pleadings, business cards, letterheads and the like.
Each attorney recognizes that because of such representation as opposed to merely sharing an office space as independent practitioners, each attorney is vicariously liable for the other attorneys' professional acts and/or omission and has consented to disclosing potential difficulties concerning representation of a client to all participating attorneys.
All participating attorneys are insured for legal negligence through a common insurance policy in the name of "Law Offices of A and B" identifying each participating attorney as a member of the firm, and with each attorney paying a pro-rata share of the premiums.
Each attorney maintains an autonomous practice with independent bank accounts, trust accounts, and books and records.
Each attorney has his own clientele from whom he is, in most circumstances, solely responsible, but there is frequent cooperation or participation between two or more attorneys on cases warranting or requiring such involvement. All attorneys regularly seek and receive informal advice from the other members of the firm regarding the handling of current client matters.
There is no pooling of the income generated by the several attorneys from their individual rendition of legal services, nor is there a sharing of the net profits.
Each attorney separately bills for legal services rendered although each attorney may pay a fee to another attorney within the firm for referral or for hourly work on behalf of the attorney's client. Each attorney filed his own tax return reflecting such attorney's operations.
The attorney-client contracts usually refer to the retention of "attorney C of the Law Firm of A and B" or the "Law Offices of A and B" or merely "attorney C."
Common assets are leased from a nonprofessional corporation the shares of which are exclusively owned by the participating attorneys and the common liabilities such as office rent are incurred by the nonprofessional corporation, which has two common employees leased to each attorney member and their staff and all other staff personnel are employed directly by the attorney for whom they work. The variable expenses such as long distance, copying expense, incurred by the nonprofessional corporation is paid for by each participating attorney on the basis of personal usage while fixed expenses incurred by the nonprofessional corporation such as rent and equipment leases are paid by the participating attorney on a per capita basis. Shareholders make majority rule decisions regarding the purchase of new assets and services and the "Law Office of A and B" has substantial library and computer research facilities.
The participating attorneys of "A and B" do not have any written agreement concerning the relationship other than the bylaws of the nonprofessional corporation.
Except for the addition of new attorneys, the relationship of the participating attorneys "A and B" has remained static for several years with no deviation from the purposeful holding out as a firm of attorneys associated in the practice of law.
Question Presented
Is the relationship of lawyers A, B, C, and D and their collective continuing holding out as attorneys associated in the practice of law consistent with Rule 7.04(d), Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct?
Rule 7.04(d) provides: "A lawyer shall not hold himself out as being a partner or associate with one or more other lawyers unless they are in fact partners or associates."
The comment of Rule 7.04 provides: "Lawyers who share office facilities but who are not in fact partners or employees of a single law firm may not denominate themselves in any manner suggesting such an ongoing professional relationship as, for example 'Smith & Jones' or "Smith & Jones Associates', or 'Smith & Associates'. Such titles create the false impression that the lawyers named have assumed a joint professional responsibility for clients' legal affairs."
The intent of Rule 7.04(d) is to prevent lawyers who are not partners from appearing to be partners. The purpose of Rule 7.04(d) is to prevent lawyers from misleading the public through the use of a firm name into believing the lawyers have assumed joint professional responsibility for the clients' legal services.
A reasonably prudent person would conclude that lawyers practicing as members of "the Law Offices of A and B" have represented to the general public the existence of a partnership, since the general public is not privy to private arrangements between the lawyers. To avoid such holding out, the "Law Offices of A and B" should disclaim partnership status by adding appropriate language of disclaimer.


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Here's a question: How long would directory publishers sit back and let new companies such as RedBeacon, AlikeList and others disrupt the leads economy for SMBs with search and socially driven features such as Twitter and Facebook? Or Google, with Place Pages? That's a question that Local Matters and other Yellow Pages vendors have obviously asked themselves.
Now Local Matters has come out with "Destination Search," a new social platform that seeks to level the search and social playing field for its U.S. and international clients, which so far includes Dex B2B in the U.S; Truvo, European Directories and Pagini Aurii in Europe; and Yellow Pages Group in New Zealand.
Playing off a feature set originally developed for real estate multiple listings services, Local Matters' platform includes state of the art social and search features. It also seeks to leverage existing strengths, such as business profile information.
Key features of the white label solution include enhanced profile listings; search optimization; integration (and easy sharing) with Facebook and Twitter; blog enablement; ratings and reviews ported from Yelp and other sources; and the addition of social media feeds on assorted online advertising.
Kris Skavish, Vice President of Products and Marketing, told us that Local Matters started planning Destination Search last September, with the specific intent of focusing on building rich local context. "A problem with online directories has been search relevancy," she noted.
Another challenge has been to reconcile Yellow Pages headings with most searched categories, which are typically microheadings. "'Plumbers' is too broad. You need to get to the correct root," said Skavish, noting that Local Matters has also created custom microheadings for categories such as hotels and attorneys.
For instance, "romantic hotels" might be sought out in user generated content but not generally included as a category. Users can also rate pictures included in romantic hotels. Publishers can also insert content at the top of the page, or refine results. They can also create brand oriented categories, such as "Toyota."
While Destination Search leveraged Local Matters' work with real estate Multiple Listing Services, important differences revealed themselves, added Skavish. "With the MLS, you prove your value with a lead " she notes. "It isn't a ranking model. And in real estate, the default view is maps. But with Yellow Pages, it is an ad model. You want users to make an action."
Local Matters CEO Mat Stover is a featured speaker at Marketplaces 2010 March 22-24 in San Diego.
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- Home
- Our Community
- Other Area Resources
- Wake County Services
Wake County Services
Wake County provides many services outside of the scope of the town's resources. Take a look at the details below, and learn more about Wake County Services at the WakeGOV website.
Animal Control
(919) 212-7387
Apex follows Wake County's Animal Control policies which regulate that:
- All animals should be physically restrained at all times, either by leash or fence.
- It is not necessary to register your animal in Apex.
- Your pet should always have their rabies tags displayed.
Environmental Services
(919) 856-7400
Wake County Environmental Services handles topics related to:
- Air quality
- Fish advisories
- Food sanitation and inspections
- Pests
- Radon information
- Soil and water conservation
- Stormwater management
- Swimming pools
- Tattoos
- Water quality
To learn more about Wake County's septic and wastewater management, visit the WakeGOV Water Quality Programs website.
Health & Human Services
(919) 212-7000
Wake County Human Services is the consolidation of programs and services formerly carried out by several separate departments and offices:
- Child Support
- Housing
- Job Training
- Mental Health
- Public Health
- Social Services
- Transportation
(919) 387-2100
The Wake County Public Library System consists of multiple regional, community branch, and special libraries. The Eva Perry Regional Library branch is located here in Apex at 2100 Shepherd's Vineyard Drive.
Property Taxes (Wake County Revenue)
(919) 856-5400
Wake County is responsible for assessing the value of your real and personal property. Apex accepts payments for property or vehicle taxes at Town Hall.
Public Transportation
(919) 212-7005
The Transportation and Rural Access (TRACS) program is available to Apex residents. Service is shared, demand responsive, and is provided on a 1st come, 1st serve, seat available basis. Apex is included in the southwest zone, which serves these and surrounding areas:
- Apex
- Fuquay-Varina
- Holly Springs
- Morrisville
Register of Deeds
(919) 856-5460
The Register of Deeds Office issues, records, maintains and makes documents on file available to the general public, including:
- Marriage licenses
- Notary oaths
- Real estate documents
- Records of armed forces discharges
- Uniform Commercial Code
Schools (Wake County Public School System)
(919) 850-1600
Wake County plans all schools in town. Contact the Wake County Public School System with any questions regarding your child's education.
Voter Registration (Wake County Board of Elections)
(919) 856-6240
All elections are conducted by Wake County. Local elections are held every odd year (ex. 2017, 2019) to elect members of the Apex Town Council.


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Check availability
Private Niagara Falls Tour for Groups of 1-9 People
5879-5899 Stanley Ave, Niagara Falls, ON L2G 3Y1, Canada
Take a private tour of Niagara Falls and visit the site that you want to say. You will be provided with a driver and vehicle for 9.5 hours to go wherever you please in the Niagara region.
- Customize your Niagara Falls experience with a Private Tour.
- Witness the power of the Niagara Falls up-close and personal by boarding the Voyage To The Falls Cruise by Hornblower.
- Explore the Niagara Falls and surrounding areas on your own or with your group.
- Scenic drive on Niagara Parkway.
- Stopover in Niagara-on-the-lake for 60-75 MINUTES.
Take The Tour Your Way With Your Family & Friends in a Private Tour (Upto 9 people)
Customize your Niagara Falls experience with a Private Tour. No trip to Canada is complete without visiting the Niagara Falls! A Niagara Falls Tour Private Tour will pick you up at your Hotel (or specified pick-up location) in a luxury van (which seats upto 9 passengers) and take you to Niagara Falls.
You will have the opportunity to witness the Niagara Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world, and to explore the Niagara region. Since this is a customized tour you can visit the site you want to see, for as long as you want to see them.
This tour is specialized for the busy business traveler, couple or small family that would like the freedom of choosing their own destinations and pickup/dropoff times. Everybody should have the opportunity to visit Niagara Falls and now they can with a Niagara Falls Tour Private Tour.
Please Note: Customer pays for all entrance fees to any attractions visited. The tour schedule below is an example of where you could go. With a custom tour the attractions you visit are completely up to you!
Customizable Tour Itinerary
Tour Begins – Pickup from Hotel or Specified pick location (8:30-9:30 AM)
Your tour begins when we pick everybody up from the Greater Toronto Area (Mississauga, Brampton, Etobicoke, Oakville, etc) or from a Niagara Falls Hotel or specified pickup location in one of our meticulous maintained luxury vehicles, pick up time depends entirely on you!
- Toronto, ON, Canada or Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Arrive at Canadian side of Niagara Falls (11:00 AM)
Your custom tour arrives at the main attraction, the majestic Canadian
Niagara Falls.Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Voyage To The Falls Cruise By Hornblower Niagara Cruise (Seasonal) (11:15 AM)
Witness the power of the Niagara Falls up-close and personal by boarding the Voyage To The Falls Cruise by Hornblower. You will travel past the American and Bridal Veil Falls and stop at the base of the Horseshoe Falls. This is an excellent photo opportunity and fun for adults and children.
- Hornblower Niagara Cruises, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Explore Niagara Falls (12:00 PM)
- Your free time begins now! You can explore the Niagara Falls and surrounding areas on your own or with your group (or skip the exploration to save time on your tour). You will be provided a free lanyard with your drivers contact information. In the event you become lost, the driver is only a phone call away.
- Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Time For Lunch & Free Time to Explore Niagara Falls (1:30 PM)
Free time to eat lunch, souvenir shop and explore Niagara Falls! This is an awesome photo opportunity!
- Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Scenic drive on Niagara Parkway (2:30 PM)
- Niagara Parkway has been called "The Prettiest Sunday Afternoon Drive in the World," see for yourself! The Niagara Parkway is a spectacular drive along the Niagara River. You can admire the views and the recreational trail is used by pedestrians and is also wheelchair accessible.Niagara Parkway,
- Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Whirlpool Rapids (3:15 PM)
Experience the natural phenomenon of the Niagara River. You will witness the power of the Niagara River and watch the white waters of the rapids in the Niagara Gorge. The waters of the rapids converge, causing them to spin in counterclockwise motion.
- Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Floral Clock (3:30 PM)
- Between the Botanical Gardens and Queenston Heights Park stands one of the most popular sights to view in Niagara. The Floral Clock is a 12.2-m (40-ft.) diameter working clock that is one of the largest in the world. Once you have taken all you photos with the colourful clock you can take time to go souvenir shopping or skip the shopping to save time on tour.
- Queenston Heights National Historic Site, Niagara Parkway, Queenston, ON, Canada
Queenston Heights Stopover (3:45 PM)
- Stopover at Queenston Heights, which borders Canada and the United States with only the Niagara River separating them. Are you a history buff? Come with us and learn about the famous Battle of Queenston Heights. Queenston Heights Park is the site of a War of 1812 battle in which Sir Isaac Brock was killed. A 50-m. (150-ft.) monument, that is perched above the Niagara Escarpment, was built in his honour. 4:00 pm: Stop at the Smallest Chapel in the World!
- Nobody takes you there, except us, this is a unique destination and a perfect place for more pictures! 4:15 pm: Stopover in Niagara-on-the-lake for 60-75 MINUTES. You will appreciate the quaint shops and boutiques that line Queen Street, the main drag of Niagara-on-the-Lake, as well as the proximity of wineries, brew pubs and even a chocolate factory!
- Queenston Heights Park, Niagara Parkway, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada
Winery Tour (5:30 PM)
- Complimentary wine and grape juice tasting is available. Be treated as a wine connoisseur at a world-class winery. Buy local-made wines of your choice. World famous Canadian Ice Wines are available here.
- Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada
Tour Ends – Drop off at Hotel or Specified drop location (7:00-8:00 PM)
-Pickup from Hotel or Specified pick location -Visit to Canadian side of Niagara Falls -Voyage To The Falls Cruise By Hornblower Niagara Cruise -Exploration of Niagara Falls -Scenic drive on Niagara Parkway -View of Whirlpool Rapids -View of Floral Clock -Stopover at Queenston Heights -Visit to the Smallest Chapel in the World -Stopover in Niagara-on-the-Lake -Winery Tour -Drop off at Hotel or Specified drop location


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A common case for most ASP.NET sites is slow frontend rendering due to many Javascripts. The typical requests graph looks like this:
All these AXD files are embedded Web Resources usually Javascripts and sometimes CSSs. The bad news about having many embedded Javascripts are:
- Many HTTP Requests (meaning generating more load to the web server)
- Less chance for caching any of those files
- If HTTP compression is enabled in the IIS many files mean more load and worse compression ratio than one merged file.
The most common scenario for having many embedded Javascripts is either using AJAX or some commercial .NET controls.
The solution for merging AJAX AXDs in a single file is described in those two great posts:
Script combining made easy [Overview of the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]and
Script combining made better [Overview of improvements to the AJAX Control Toolkit's ToolkitScriptManager]The recapitulation when with a friend of mine (Julian) tested out this technique was reducing the loading time with about 2 seconds on a quite clean and well build site. Also the better HTTP compression reduced the size a bit.
If you are using ComponentArt's Web.UI version 2007.2 or later controls there is solution posted on their blogs too:
Optimizing Web.UI Client Script DeploymentAnd couple more general advices:
- If it depends on you merge all your Javascript and CSS files
- Load CSS at most top of you page
- Load Javascripts at most bottom of your page (if possible)
- Minify both Javascripts and CSSs
- Be smart :)
Update: Stefan Dobrev sent me a link for moving the AJAX Javascripts to the bottom (point 3 of the list above) which should improve rendering time too. Thanks Stefan


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It has been nearly four months since Martha Welter first alerted Amazon.com that a search for "teen books for girls" yielded scores of pornographic books on its website. Not only are the books still there, but dozens more have been added, many of them more graphic than before.
What's more, it appears that the books' publishers may be intentionally targeting these books to teen girls.
For source documents and video coverage, check out the original piece at NBCChicago.com.
As NBC5 Investigates first reported last December, Welter — a Chicago grandmother — logged on to Amazon the Monday after Thanksgiving to look for a Christmas present for her 12-year-old granddaughter.
"I always give books to my grandkids for Christmas," she said at the time.
Welter, a frequent Amazon shopper, began her search by typing the word "teen" into Amazon's search box. A drop-down menu suggested a search for "Teen Books for Girls," so she clicked on it, and then looked for the newest books available.
"I go through the first page, and that's fine," she said. "And I go to the second page, and there I find adult picture books — adult, pornographic picture books."
And not just a few: NBC5 Investigates replicated Welter's search at the time, and found that 91 out of a total of 140 books featured as Amazon's newest "teen books for girls," were, in fact, adult picture books, most with graphic covers that were impossible to avoid while paging through the search results.
Welter immediately alerted Amazon.
"I [couldn't] imagine that they would be doing this intentionally," she said.
It took a few days, but she finally got a rather baffling email response from an Amazon customer service representative.
"Hello," it said: "From your message I understand that you have seen some Pornographic books in recent releases of books for teen girls. I appreciate you taking the time to share your opinions about website information. We introduced this feature so that individuals using our web search feature would be presented with the opportunity to discover related items of interest."
"Who do they think is 'interested'?" Welter said. "Me or my teen granddaughter?"
The customer service email continued: "I've passed your message on to the appropriate people in our company. ... Thank you for your inquiry. Did I solve your problem?"
Since the answer was no, Welter continued to send emails and write letters in an effort to get Amazon.com to take down the books, with no results. NBC5 also sent several emails and left even more voice mails for Amazon.
he company never responded, and the "books" remained online into the new year.
Now, they've multiplied.
Seventeen weeks after Welter first alerted Amazon, a search for recently-published Kindle versions of "Teen Books for Girls" yields prominent photos of topless or near-naked women and titles like "Sexy Asian Girl's Desire (Adult Picture Book)," "Rip Off My Stockings," and even "Daddy Daughter Taboo Sex Stories (Family Sex)," amidst such innocent titles as "Emily of New Moon," "Blinky Bill and Nutsy," and even "Keeping Your Kids Safe."
In observance of NBC's own standards and practices, most of the book titles can't be listed here.
NBC5 Investigates' most recent count shows that more than half of the most-recently-published Kindle books listed as "Teen Books for Girls," — 104 books out of the most recent 200 — are adult books. What's more, each book's URL, the unique web address generated when the book is published online, actually includes the term "teen-books-for-girls," suggesting it is no accident that the books are appearing in this search geared towards teenagers.
Without a response from Amazon, it is difficult to know just how these books have made their way into a search which anyone, including any child, can do. But it appears the books are being uploaded through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service, which Amazon advertises online as "the fast and easy way to self-publish your books for sale in the Kindle Store." The site allows any self-publisher to define how and where his or her "book" will be classified in Amazon, and allows the publisher to create the key words that will target the book online.
The service's "Content Guidelines" state: "We don't accept pornography or offensive depictions of graphic sexual acts. … What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect."
That appears to be Amazon's guidelines for all such Kindle books, including those found in an innocent search for a book for a 12-year-old girl.
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New Vision Counseling and Consulting
LIcensed and Certified Marriage Therapists
New Vision Counseling and Consulting is a group licensed and certified marriage therapists located in Oklahoma City. They offer therapy with a Christian focus. New Vision Counseling offers counseling services that cover everything from couples counseling to emotional and behavioral issues to trauma and even couples counseling.
Oklahoma City ( (listen)), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and is the 8th largest city in the Southern United States. The population grew following the 2010 census and reached 681,054 in the 2020 census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area had a population of 1,396,445, and the Oklahoma City–Shawnee Combined Statistical Area had a population of 1,469,124, making it Oklahoma's largest municipality and metropolitan area by population. Oklahoma City's city limits extend somewhat into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside the core Oklahoma County area are suburban tracts or protected rural zones (watershed).
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Washington (CNN) -- Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.
The Secret Service confirmed a Washington Post report that the couple who crashed Tuesday night's dinner were Tareq and Michaele Salahi. The Post described the couple as polo-playing socialites from northern Virginia.
A Secret Service checkpoint "did not follow proper procedures" to determine if the two were on the guest list for the dinner, said Edwin M. Donovan, a Secret Service special agent, in a statement.
Playing down any security threat, Donovan's statement said: "It is important to note that these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of security, as did all guests attending the dinner."
The incident represents a security breach for the White House at the Obama administration's biggest social event to date. More than 300 guests, including Cabinet members, diplomats and Hollywood celebrities, attended the dinner in honor of visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"The Secret Service has tasked our Office of Professional Responsibility with conducting a comprehensive review of the incident," Donovan's statement said.
Video footage of the dinner showed the couple walking past journalists into the event. On Wednesday, Michaele Salahi's Facebook page included photos of the couple at the dinner, including two pictures with Vice President Joe Biden and another with Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, who was identified on the page as "Ron" Emanuel.
The couple's names did not appear on the guest list distributed Tuesday by the White House.
In an e-mail to CNN, Mahogany Jones, who identified herself as a publicist for the Salahis, said the couple had "full clearance to attend the state dinner."
Fran Townsend, a homeland security adviser to former President George W. Bush, said the incident likely involved a breakdown at the "perimeter" security for the event, which is the first checkpoint that guests encounter.
Lying to the Secret Service could bring a felony charge, Townsend said.


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One of A. Lange & Sohne's more quiet new releases for 2012 was this redesigned version of the Grand Lange 1 watch. Last year they released the great looking Lange 1 Daymatic with an automatic movement, and this year the Lange 1's slightly bigger brother gets an update. This model is really something that mostly dedicated A. Lange & Sohne fans are going to understand, as it isn't clearly an update, but more a slight revision. The Grand Lange 1 actually gets a bit smaller, but also thinner as well. Plus, the dial layout is now much more clean.
The original Lange 1 watch helped make the modern A. Lange & Sohne brand popular back in the 1990s. Its asymmetric design was highly unusual, and it was risky at the time. Now the Lange 1 is the brand's flagship model. It comes in a 38.5mm wide case – which is nothing huge by today's standards. When the Grand Lange 1 originally came out a few years ago it was 41.9mm wide and 11mm thick. It upped the size of the case and helped emphasize the larger stance of the watch by using a subsidiary seconds dial that overlapped the off-centered hour and minute dial. Even the "outsize" (big) date window overlapped the hour and minute dial. It was a cool watch, but I feel that its less than totally fluid dial appearance itched at Lange's designers.
For 2012, the Grand Lange 1 gets a refined look that is more in-line with a slightly larger version of the Lange 1 collection. While the older Grand Lange 1 was 41.9mm wide, the new for 2012 models are down to 40.9mm wide. The case has also been thinned down to just 8.8mm in thickness. To create the appearance of a larger watch, the bezel of the Grand Lange 1 is a bit thinner than that of the normal Lange 1. Aside from that, the dials of the two watches are now extremely similar – making them harder to tell apart aside from the size difference (which is either a good or bad thing depending on the collector). For me I am happy. Not that a Lange 1 or Grand Lange 1 is in my price range, but if it was I would appreciate the new Grand Lange 1 all the more. The 38.5mm wide version is too small for my tastes, but I love the appearance of the dial. With the 40.9mm wide Grand Lange 1, you can have the looks of the original Lange 1 in a more contemporary size. Even then, about 41mm wide is not considered a large watch.
A. Lange & Sohne will offer three versions of the new Grand Lange 1 watch to start. Each are in a precious metal case. The Grand Lange 1 will be offered in either 18k yellow gold, 18k pink gold, or platinum – which is pretty much what you can expect. Fit and finishing are of course excellent – as is the solid silver dial and applied precious metal indicator and hands. Attached to the watch is a hand-stitched alligator strap.
The reason the indicators on the dial no longer overlap as they did on the older Grand Lange 1 is because the new for 2012 models uses a new in-house made A. Lange & Sohne movement. It is the caliber L095.1 manually wound movement and it offers the time with off-centered minutes and hours, subsidiary seconds dial, big date indicator, and power reserve indicator. The movement is immaculately decorated by hand and is visible through the sapphire caseback window.
On the wrist, the new A. Lange & Sohne Grand Lange 1 feel great. It feels more modern than the smaller model and the thinner poise is in line with the current expectations of high-end dress watches. Overall this might be a sneaky introduction by the brand but should prove to be quite popular in the brand's best markets. Price for the Grand Lange 1 is $39,300 in yellow or pink gold, and $53,200 in platinum.
Tech specs from A. Lange & Sohne:
GRAND LANGE 1 – Ref. No. 117.021; 117.032; 117.025
Movement: Lange manufacture calibre L095.1, manually wound, crafted to the most exacting Lange quality standards, decorated and assembled by hand; precision-adjusted in five positions; plates and bridges made of untreated German silver; balance cock engraved by hand
No. of movement parts: 397
Jewels: 42
Screwed gold chatons: 7
Escapement: Lever escapement
Oscillation system: Shock-resistant screw balance; superior-quality balance spring manufactured in-house, frequency 21,600 semi-oscillations per hour, precision beat adjustment system with lateral setscrew and whiplash spring
Power reserve: 72 hours when fully wound
Functions: Time indicated in hours, minutes, and subsidiary seconds with stop seconds; power-reserve indicator; outsize date
Operating elements: Crown for winding the watch and setting the time; one push piece for rapid correction of the outsize date
Case dimensions: Diameter: 40.9 millimetres; height: 8.8 millimetres
Movement dimensions: Diameter: 34.1 millimetres; height: 4.7 millimetres
Glass and caseback: Sapphire crystal (hardness 9)
Case: Yellow gold (117.021); Pink gold (117.032); Platinum (117.025)
Dial: Solid silver, champagne (117.021); Solid silver, argenté (117.032); Solid silver, rhodié (117.025)
Hands: Yellow gold (117.021); Pink gold (117.032); Rhodiumed gold (117.025)
Strap: Hand-stitched crocodile strap, medium brown (117.021); Hand-stitched crocodile strap, red-brown (117.032); Hand-stitched crocodile strap, black (117.025)
Buckle: Lange prong buckle in yellow gold (117.021); Lange prong buckle in pink gold (117.032); Lange prong buckle in platinum (117.025)


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Bio Rex
Mannerheimintie 22 - 24,
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Architects: Niilo Kokko, Viljo Revell, Heimo Riihimaki
Firms: Kokko, Revell and Riihimaki
Functions: Movies (Film Festivals), Movies (First Run), Movies (Independent)
Styles: Streamline Moderne
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The Bio Rex is now part of the Lasipalatsi Film and Media Centre and is owned by the City of Helsinki. Seating is provided for 600 on one level, with private boxes located at the rear, each of which has its own sound system. It has been refurbished and re-opened in January 2000
The architectural firm of Kokko, Revell and Riihimaki were responsible for the original design, attributed to architect's Viljo Revell, Niilo Kokko and Heimo Riihimaki. The Bio Rex opened in February 1936 with a premiere of the fim :Mustia Ruusuja" (Black Roses).
The building is considered to be a landmark work of modern architecture in Finland. It underwent another renovation, which was completed in 2007.
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Some more photographs here:
A view from one of the boxes
What a fantastic looking place. Must great seeing movies here in big auditorium.
Came across the following series of photos on Flickr, regarding cinemas in Helsinki. According to Miemo "The exhibition Kinostalgia is a nostalgic tribute to the old cinemas – the Holga-photographs were taken in fall 2006 in four of the oldest remaining movie theaters of Helsinki: Bio Rex, Orion, Maxim and Forum.In 1960 there were 49 movie theaters in Helsinki. In 2006 there are only 8 left."
This is one of the series
A couple more photos from August 2007:
And some more history:
The Bio Rex cinema was opened in February 1936. The main door to the cinema is situated under an illuminated curved concrete awning and leads to an entrance hall containing the box office and a broad staircase leading up to the first floor foyer. The foyer, with its large windows, afforded access both to the cinema auditorium and to the restaurant and terrace. A spiral staircase also led up to the curved cinema gallery.
"Even an ordinary layman is delighted at the appearance and comfort of the cinema: its entrance hall has a high ceiling and is delightfully spacious and well-lit. A broad, well-appointed staircase leads to the hall itself, which welcomes the visitor with its beautiful colour scheme and peaceful ambience. "
Ordinary Helsinki residents read in their daily paper about the special guest opening night of the cinema. The invited guests were given a guided tour of the new cinema and treated to a programme including the music of Sibelius performed by the cinema orchestra. The event culminated in the premiere of the film "Mustia Ruusuja" [black Roses], which was damned by the critics, while the new cinema, on the other hand, was greatly appreciated.
Although the Bio Rex was only the second largest cinema in Helsinki at the time of its opening, it was indisputably the most modern. All of the very latest technological advances were exploited: "The sound equipment of the cinema is based on the Western Electric Wide Range system", and with a view to favourable acoustics, the walls of the auditorium were cladded with Austrian Heraklith tiles made of wood-wool. This was a novelty for the 1930s and was valued for its fire-resistant, sound damping and thermal insulation qualities – and also because it repelled lice! Acoustic demands were still a relative novelty in cinemas, as talking pictures had arrived in Finland only in the early 1930s.
This "cinema of first class and partially brilliant design and construction " was blessed with "a uniquely modern ventilation system encompassing heating, humidifying and cooling equipment " in which "the air is cleaned four times an hour in machinery in the cellar of the building". The clean air was blown into the auditorium at the level of the ceiling lights and stale air was sucked out through ducts at the bottom of the seating stand. The ventilation room is located on the ground floor. The designs of the Stuttgart firm Lufttechnische GmbH were used in the planning of the Bio Rex ventilation system.
One of the high points for the new cinema undoubtedly occurred in 1938, when the prospect of getting the 1940 Olympic Games organised in Finland inspired the extension of an invitation to Leni Riefenstahl to visit the country. Riefenstahl's film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics "A Festival of Nations" was shown to the guest of honour at the Bio Rex. It is said that Riefenstahl was given a standing ovation, not merely during the presentation but also afterwards, and that the applause continued and followed her all the way out of the building and into the street. The second part of the film: "A Festival of Beauty" was likewise shown at the Bio Rex.
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Originally published Oct 2011 in Wired Magazine 'Change Accelerators' by Gary Hayes 4 of 5
When planning your next holiday to London with the fam, don't forget to sync up your iGlasses and load up the London experience packs. On arrival, slip on your augmented reality sunglasses and take a look around: Roman-era London appears before your eyes. Slaves and gladiators walk through the streets and chariots rush past. You can add your own comments leaving virtual "We Were Here" graffiti for all time. The experience is part documentary, part user-generated narrative, and entirely pervasive. In other words, augmented reality meets living history.
In our everyday lives, we engage with stories in many ways, whether it's eye-to-eye contact with a stranger that sparks an instant connection or a well-crafted movie or TV show. But what if we started experiencing those stories in the outernet's layers?
While online networks are evolving traditional entertainment, such as TV and web series, we are also witnessing the rise of a new form of media called "augmented reality storytelling." I've dubbed this new form of diversion 'ntertainment, as a shorthand for immersive augmented reality entertainment.
At its broadest level, augmented reality is about enhancing the physical world through digital elements, such as images, sound, and information. Now technology is enabling us to further situate and layer our digital stories in places where other narratives can't reach. Right now, we see this happening when someone holds up a camera on an iPhone or tablet and shares objects or stories from the real world.
The opening Roman London example is based on an existing service called Londinium, which is a collaboration between the History Channel and the Museum of London using augmented reality video layered over real-world streets to re-create an alternate history. Coincidentally, London is also used as a site in the globe-spanning Ghost Tours 2.0. Haunted London encourages visitors to explore the city's eerie side using locative AR (augmented reality). Likewise, another situated project is Witness, which draws participants into the dramatic and seedy underbelly of criminal Berlin. In this case, players are the hero: They watch graphic video scenes at different city locations and are then sent detective challenges to uncover the truth. But here's the twist: The story might just bite you back! Augmented reality games and stories can even get physical, like the recent example of Chelsea FC playing the world's largest Space Invaders game in a stadium using projection AR.
Gaming is leading the way. New consoles, like Vita, allow users to literally take game characters orreality fighters into the streets. Other gaming advances like AR games on Nintendo's 3DS start to recognize place markers placed around a player's city, transforming screen-based MMORPG(massively multiplayer online role-playing games) into an LMMOG (location-based massively multiplayer online games).
Augmented reality storytelling is starting to appear across our smart GPS mobile devices. Several marketing campaigns are taking the initiative by spearheading real-time AR challenges, such as Vodafone's Buffer Monsters, which challenged German smartphone users to download a mobile app to capture virtual creatures and win a lifetime plan. This is only one example, other AR advergames encourage users to competitively run around cities on scavenger hunts for real-world prizes, such as the Droid Bionic AR Game. Similarly, this October, Gundam, the Japanese anime giant, release an iPhone/iPad app called Gundam Area Wars. The game uses the devices' camera and gyroscopic sensors to show life-size 3D models situated in the player's real-world landscape.
Given these above examples, I return to my earlier travel scenario and I wonder how commonplace it will become for people arriving in a new location to start experiencing it through augmented reality storytelling and gameplay? The traditional guidebook has already morphed into digital form. The Lonely Planet is already a downloadable app. Is it a big jump to imagine AR and location-based storytelling won't soon allow travelers to engage history on a whole new level? One might even argue a deeper and more meaningful one than just the 2D sightseeing experience of looking at crumbling ruins. So many guidebooks have been written on the principle of making history come to life—AR actually makes it possible.
One could even take this one step further and question, why do we need to travel at all when we have our own personal Holodecks at our fingertips? Fast Company recently reported on Tour Wrist, a virtual tour that lets iPad users move around a global location with unlimited zoom and freedom. "Travelers" are virtually transported to that place and able to immerse themselves in it becoming the hero in a remotely situated, digital storyworld.
Finally, in the near future, we might all have the capability to create duplicates of our surroundings in 3D for others. This Microsoft R&D initiative to map the world uses the fastest selling piece of tech on the planet, the Xbox Kinect. This would allow everyday people to create unlimited user-generated 3D AR—foreseeable as easily as snapping a digital picture. In addition to this, there is a saturation of location-stamped social stories inside services, such as Google Earth, TagWhat, HistoryPin, Facebook Places, CheckIn+, Foursquare, and Gowalla, among others. What will result from all these stories becoming interconnected and navigable using AR devices?
From that point on, we will be co-creating an augmented entertainment eternity. Together. Will you be a part of it?


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CB-8, portable bar. Designed for can and bottle service. Conventional ice sink with drain. 60lb ice bin capacity with sliding stainless steel cover. Standard features include a full length bottle speed rail, towel ring and condiment holder. Matching back bar and ice carts are available.
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Available in 5", 6" and 8" diameters.
Specified unit shall be FWE Model No. CB-8, Mobile Bar.
CONSTRUCTION. Heliarc welded, single unit construction shall consist of welded stainless steel base frame of heavy gauge 1" square stainless steel tubing with extra 10 gauge stainless steel caster corner plate reinforcements. Full length, heavy gauge stainless steel angles reinforce front corners of body on inside with high impact edging on outside corners. Work surface shall be constructed of 20 gauge stainless steel. Interior of body shall be lined with 22 gauge stainless steel, bonded to cabinet walls and bottom storage area. Seams shall overlap for greater durability and moisture resistance. Work and splash areas shall be polished stainless steel with easy-to-clean coved corners. Front edge shall have raised marine nosing to contain spills.
SCB Series: Shall be stainless steel, heliarc welded; ground and polished exterior an stainless steel bar top.
CB Series: Front and side panels shall be high-pressure, dual-side counter-balanced laminate .75" thick finish. Laminate selections are available. Full length, heavy gauge stainless steel angles reinforce front corners of body on inside, with high impact edging on outside corners. Black laminate top with bull-nose rounded corners.
ES-CB Series: Classic raised solid maple wood panels. All wood surfaces finished with polymer coating to deter scratching and gouging. Constructed with reinforced joints for additional strength and durability. Solid surface top.
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STORAGE AREA. On all models, the bottom storage area shall be stainless steel lined. Provided with one shelf.
BAR ACCESSORIES. Standard equipment shall include 4.25" deep, heavy gauge stainless steel full length bottle speed rail; removable without tools. Towel ring shall be mounted to working side. Stainless steel condiment holder provided.
INSULATED ICE BIN WITH DRAIN. Ice bin with drain shall be one-piece stainless steel with coved corners: 19.75" x 12.75" x 10.5" deep. Ice bin shall have enclosed foam insulation with drain with shut-off drain valve. 8 foot models shall have two (2) ice bins with drains. Ice bin shall have a capacity of 60lbs of ice, and be provided with a stainless steel sliding cover.
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Hey Mr. Green,
Which gas stations in the United States are the best to use concerning the environment? I don't want to be buying from gas stations who buy from oil companies that pay lobbyists to deny climate change.
—Katrina in San Antonio
Rating the oil companies is a tricky—and potentially embarrassing—endeavor. In 2008 in my otherwise reliable book I ranked BP as one of the best companies, only to watch it plunge to the bottom of the barrel with its unprecedented toxic fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico. The assessment effort is immensely complicated by the variety of activities and locations involving these global industries, not to mention the difficulty of rating the different headache they create (and sometimes help remedy. What's worse, Royal Dutch Shell's pollution of air and water in Brazil, or Exxon's opposition to policies to curb global warming? Should Valero be downgraded because it pumped a lot of money in to a referendum to axe California's tough restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions? Should ConocoPhillips move up a notch because it donates money to save migratory birds, or be downgraded because of a rather nonchalant approach to cutting its emissions?
The only bedrock certainty I have is that these outfits should not continue to wallow in $3.6 billion-a-year tax breaks handed them by their pals in Congress, especially after they raked in $38 billion in the first quarter of this year alone (and do tell your senators and representatives that you prefer to see such corporate welfare rerouted to environmental protection, clean energy, or other humane purposes).
With the above-mentioned contingencies in mind, following are Sierra's most recent ratings, from the best to the worst, or top to bottom of the barrel:
Top of the Barrel
Middle of the Barrel
Royal Dutch Shell
Valero Energy Corporation
Bottom of the Barrel
Dishonorable Mention
For a detailed discussion of how these assessments were made, see http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/pickyourpoison/
To request a copy of "Can't Get the Oil Out of My Wings," a bird's personal account of her encounter with an oil slick, contact me by clicking on "Submit your question" above. Warning: This poem features adult content and language.


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Human beings are a "tectonic force" shaping nearly every facet of the planet we depend on and our failure to realize that is at the heart of most ecological disputes, environmentalist David Suzuki said Thursday.
In Edmonton to receive an honorary degree from the University of Alberta, the long-time conservationist and oilsands critic was greeted by cheers and boos as he got up to speak while protesters waved placards outside.
"We have disputes over many things because we haven't started from a position of agreement on what we all need and must protect," Suzuki said in a moderate speech that focused on the challenges facing the science students graduating.
"We have become the dominant animal on the planet and we have to find a way of living in balance with the elements that keep us alive and healthy."
Some stood to cheer his words, others remained seated, but the applause was long and loud.
Suzuki has said that Alberta's oilsands, which are crucial to the province's economy, should be left in the ground to prevent vast amounts of carbon from being released into the atmosphere.
Outside the convocation ceremony, about three dozen protesters from as far away as the oilsands capital of Fort McMurray and the industry's financial hub in Calgary disputed Suzuki's position – as well as his fitness for the honour.
"The oil industry is important to Alberta and to Canada and Mr. Suzuki is not very supportive of it," said Barbara Benyon of Camrose, Alta. "Any good he might have done has been cancelled out long since."
The university said Suzuki's honorary degree was granted "for contributions to public understanding of science and the environment."
However, there are those in the province who take Suzuki's views personally.
"It is a personal thing," said Bob Iverach, a Calgary lawyer and University of Alberta alum.
Iverach said giving Suzuki a degree 10 years ago, before he became so outspoken, would have been one thing. Now, Iverach compared it to giving one to Adolph Hitler on the basis of his early career.
"Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf.' Do you give him a PhD for the body of work he's done?"
Others criticized Suzuki for his lifestyle. They said it's a long way from the low-carbon model he advocates for others.
"This award to David Suzuki is a complete insult," said Ken Wilson from Calgary. "He's a celebrity sensation. He's made up. He has done nothing environmentally in terms of his own lifestyle."
Suzuki did not directly address the controversy, but did say everyone should be "scientifically literate" so as to be able to address today's economic and environmental challenges.
In introducing Suzuki, university president David Turpin reminded the audience that universities have traditionally been places where unpopular but necessary ideas can be thrashed out.
"We need independent thinkers," he said. "We need to question the status quo."
The university announced in April that Suzuki was one of 13 people who would be honoured at spring convocation.
That prompted complaints, as well as critical public letters from the university's deans of business and engineering.
Donors and alumni, particularly those in the oil and gas industry, said they would withdraw donations and partnerships. One Calgary law firm said it was cancelling its annual $100,000 funding commitment to the university's law school.
In an op-ed posted on his foundation's website, Suzuki said that universities should be the place "to air a range of ideas about the geophysical, social and economic consequences of fossil fuel use."


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RYE BROOK, N.Y. —- Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data, and cloud computing solutions, has joined Henry Schein, Inc.'s Dentrix Developer Program. Broadview will develop and market OfficeSuite Dental, a cloud-based communications solution that, in conjunction with Henry Schein's industry-leading Dentrix G5 practice management software, provides dental practices with turnkey practice management and communications.
OfficeSuite Dental brings unique benefits to dental practices. Integrated with Dentrix G5, OfficeSuite Dental will enhance patient satisfaction while increasing employee productivity and operational efficiency. Communications with patients will be streamlined, combining state-of-the-art phone system features with automated patient database information. Incoming calls from patients will trigger an automatic pop-up display of the Dentrix patient notes for staff before a call is even answered. With relevant patient data on the computer screen, practice staff can prioritize calls, quickly answer questions, and move on to the next call with better efficiency.
The resulting new Broadview offering will help dental practices control costs while improving customer service, and includes more than 40 features, a choice of IP phones, an easy-to-use web portal, unlimited local and long distance calling, and Internet access as a monthly-billed service. Developed as a service, OfficeSuite Dental provides this state-of-the-art phone system with no capital investment required.
"Digital dental practices look for new technologies that work together to simplify patient and business process workflow," said president of Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Kevin Bunker. "The Dentrix Developer Program is helping more than 100 innovative companies quickly develop new solutions for the dental market by integrating with Dentrix G5. OfficeSuite Dental is a great example of how a phone solution can leverage Dentrix G5 to streamline a practice's front desk operations for new levels of responsiveness and efficiencies."
Broadview will market OfficeSuite Dental in conjunction with Henry Schein, expanding Broadview's distribution in the dental practice marketplace. OfficeSuite Dental will be part of Henry Schein's TechCentral portfolio of business and computer technology solutions.
Unlike on-premises phone systems, the OfficeSuite cloud-based solution resides in Broadview's network cloud and is not reliant on in-office PBX equipment. Instead, standard IP connections link office phones to the cloud-based network and allow practices to easily add, change and move phones to meet their needs.
This approach offers greater flexibility and allows individual users to configure their desk phones via a secure website and customize features like speed dialing, call answering, voicemail, and call forwarding. An employee can use any phone in the practice's phone system, including phones in other locations, which will automatically switch to that user's established preferences. Users can also turn their computers into office phones with an additional "softphone" option that allows them to receive and make calls as if they were in their office from any computer with an Internet connection. Additionally, employees can access voicemail through Android and iPhone clients, receive calls anywhere with mobile twinning, and make changes in real time using the mobile-optimized website.
"We're excited to integrate with Dentrix G5 and bring the next generation of communication tools to dental practices," said Broadview Networks' COO, Brian Crotty. "When a practice's phone system and practice management software work together, the practice improves both the patient's phone call experience and employee productivity."
For more information about OfficeSuite Dental, visit broadviewnet.com. For a live demonstration, visit Broadview at the Greater New York Dental Meeting (booth No. 3831) through Nov. 28.
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Alexandra Petrova: "Russia, My Blind Mother."
by Rita Malikonyte Mockus / October 31, 2011 / 2 Comments
The poet talks to us about Russia, St. Petersburg, Italy, literature, and the out-of-body experience of good translation
Alexandra Petrova is an award-winning Russian poet and fiction writer who resides in Rome. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Point of Detachment (1994), Residence Permit (2000), and Just the Trees (2008). Her poems have appeared in several Russian magazines as well as in Literary Revue, Modern Poetry in Translation, Drunken Boat, and Guernica among others. Alexandra has also written a libretto for a philosophical operetta "Dolly's Shepherds." She is currently writing her first novel at the University of Iowa with the International Writing Program.
Petrova was one of the readers at City of Asylum's 2011 Jazz/Poetry Concert; she was interviewed by Rita Mockus at the New Hazlett Theatre on the day of her debut reading in Pittsburgh. In this interview Petrova talks about St. Petersburg's international characteristics, Russia's problems with forgotten history, and the out-of-body experience of good translation.
Let's talk about your journey as a creative writer. You were born in Russia, later you shortly lived in Estonia and Israel, and now you live in Italy. Does immigration have an effect on your poetry?
I have lived abroad half of my life, but I still write in Russian. Just this year I began writing in Italian; I wrote several short stories, just for fun, but I have noticed that another personality came out of my writing in a foreign language. I'm very different when I write in Italian and it's interesting for me to discover how much the language we use can affect our personality and our writing style.
Some people believe that my life and my experiences abroad have changed my poetry, but in my opinion, it hasn't changed that much. I was born and, for many years, I lived in St. Petersburg, an international city which provided a chance for me to live abroad while I was still in Russia.
For me St. Petersburg—which, by the way, is not a Russian name—was the center of the world, inhabited by various cultures living together in symbiosis. For example, strolling down the streets of St. Petersburg I would see an Armenian church, and soon after, a Catholic church, followed by a Lutheran church.
I also lived very close to the Hermitage museum so I would frequently go there after school to explore Italian art or Dutch still life. .For a child growing in St Peterburg it was inevitable and completely natural not to feel much difference between Russian and Italian pronunciation of such names as, for example, Rinaldi, Brenna or Rastrelli.
To answer your question, I started writing poetry before I left Russia, but now, living outside of it, I feel that I have a better grasp of why my native country is the way it is. Perhaps distance is helping me…
In your poem "My Place," the last line reads, "My nesting place / Italy / my resting place." Can you comment on that?
When I came to Rome, I visited the historic Cimitero acattolico, a famous non-Catholic cemetery where a lot of English writers, including Keats and Percy Shelley were buried along with several important 17th and 18th century Russians. In its literal sense it is a very romantic place. The phrase "my resting place" is also a playful allusion to this cemetery. I love including a secret or even a childish drawing in my poems. In this particular poem I use antique Slavic words that in Russian have the same root, meaning 'place.' I am also interested in occasionally employing words like, for example, kladbishia that has a dual meaning of cemetery and cache.
When you metaphorically write, "Russia, my blind mother, / I, your coachman, am freezing inside of you," what are you actually saying?
The word I use here for 'mother' is mamasha. I guess there is no word in English that would accurately describe what I intend to convey by this Russian word. Mamasha means a very cold, unloving woman or mother. Even though I am Russian and love my country, I still think that Russia is blind and, in some ways, cold and terrible.
It seems to me that Russia holds no memory of herself. She is blind because she can't see how her own history shapes her people. Every new period wipes off everything preceding it. Beginning with Peter the Great, the Tsar who drastically changed Russia's old culture and killed many people, every new reformation or revolution in Russia makes the memory of the former era sound either criminal or completely right. Nothing in between seems to exist. For example, now some people are nostalgic even of Stalin's Soviet times. Why? Because they don't remember how things truly were during those times. This blind mentality is very sad.
"It seems to me that Russia holds no memory of herself. She is blind because she can't see how her own history shapes her people."
Is there a difference between poetry and political statement?
Political or not, good poetry is always contemporary. One doesn't have to write about, say, how terrible Vladamir Putin is. One can write about the ageless topic of trees and still use a current cultural or political point of view. Poetry doesn't have to be political, but I think that good poetry is never pure demagogy.
Do you accept translation or do you think that it can never adequately represent a poetic text?
Generally, I don't believe in translation. The Italians have a saying: Traduttore e` traditore (a translator is a traitor), but it's not always true. Sometimes translation improves the original—in my case, I hope not.
However, I also work as a translator. I have just finished translating a rather difficult text (Patrizia Cavalli's Patria) and I guess Italians, like us Russians, think about their country all the time. In translation, literary works always look different. When you translate, you have to try to discover the spirit of the poem—which is written in a language that is foreign to you—and completely immerse yourself in it. It's like you're entering the writer's mind and body. If that happens, then the translation is successful.
Is freedom of creative expression still repressed in Russia? Are there limitations on what can be published in Russia?
Nowadays you can write about anything you want in Russia. You can also find a publisher for your work. Ironically, that doesn't change anything. Well, of course, if you are a journalist and write about dangerous topics such as Chechnya or corruption, then it's a different story. However, nobody pays any attention to what is happening in novels or poems. Creative writing no longer has the power to change anything in society or politics. It had that power before—people were even afraid of its allegorical and symbolic meaning—but not anymore. It's very depressing. I don't know how things will be in the future. Even though I don't live there at the present moment, I write in Russian, so it still concerns me.
Your writing has moved from poetry to philosophical play (operetta), and now you are writing your first novel. What prompts you to try different genres? How are they different from each other?
When I was writing my operetta I noticed that I was able to engage with the absurd world in a more effective way than in my poetry or prose. Prose is different from poetry because it has a much slower pace. In poetry you can do away with all the 'unnecessary' words. In prose you can't completely avoid description. You have to write about a lot of mundane details and sometimes use boring words and sentences.
Does your writing—poetry, prose, or drama—in any way address issues of contemporary feminism?
I am a natural feminist, so I don't think it's one of my obsessions. I was born in a family of women who had university degrees. My great grandmother went to college, and so did my grandmother, and later my mother. Our house was predominately female, we didn't have to deal with male characters and constantly fight for our rights. I understand that there are women for whom this subject is of cardinal significance, but feminism is not one of my topics.
You have started your international writing program in Iowa. What effect do you hope the Iowa experience will have on your poetry?
I don't know, maybe I will write something about the squirrels—use them as a metaphor for something. By the way, there is an abundance of them in Iowa. Otherwise, I don't know; we will see. Perhaps later I will be able to say more about my experience there.
Read a selection of Alexandra Petrova's poetry from Iowa's International Writers Program.


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Agnieszka Holland's thoughtful and mature look at the moral tangle of WW2 was overlooked in the clutter of more commercial 80s attractions about the plight of the Jews. This story's source is the book Bittere Ernte by Hermann H. Field and Stanislaw Mierzenski, an American architect and a Polish journalist who were imprisoned for nine years by the Russians after the cessation of hostilities. In a part of rural Poland where most of the populace speaks German, a lonely bachelor hides a miserable refugee from the Nazis. Unfortunately, the temptation for him to consider her as his personal property is too strong.
The subject of Europeans hiding Jews from the Nazis conjures the case of Anne Frank, a tragedy in which two entire families were almost saved by a courageous Dutch couple. Many more experiences were much less uplifting, as countless fugitives were robbed, mistreated and betrayed by neighbors promising them shelter. Angry Harvest plots the complex case of Leon and Rosa. Rosa is grateful for Leon's kindness, even when she spends weeks in a dark cellar and nearly loses her grip on reality. Leon is a more difficult problem. His outrage at the thievery of Cybulkowski (Wojciech Pszoniak) stops when Cybulkowski bribes him with a fancy desk stolen from Jews. Confessing his sexual frustration to the local priest, Leon is advised to marry, at which point the Priest's unattractive sister starts hinting that she's available.
Leon has little difficulty hiding Rosa, as his corrupt neighbors never think he's capable of such a thing. He's able to effectively squelch gossip by threatening to fire his nosy farmhands. Leon's trouble is that the temptation of an attractive woman 'in his custody' is too much for him. He's too proud to visit the local tart and too selfish to marry. Rosa should naturally be grateful for the secure hiding place, so Leon uses his position to take advantage of her. Leon is not an evil man, merely a weak one. Rosa has lost almost everything. By becoming his partly willing lover, she loses what little is left of her personal identity. Leon's deceitful 'protection' is the last step in the destruction of a human being.
Leon gives in to sordid self-delusions to rationalize selfish decisions. Rosa hopes that her husband may be hiding out in the woods. Leon gets the idea of leaving her scarf tied to a tree as a signal. Almost immediately, someone ties knots in the scarf -- a probable counter-sign from the husband. Fearful of losing Rosa, Leon makes no mention of it.
Angry Harvest avoids standard suspense scenes with jackbooted German soldiers. We're instead given a number of credible but surprising story turns. Nontacted by an old friend now in the resistance, Leon is too frightened to say no to the task of carrying a message to a nearby town. He 'solves' his problem by enlisting an even more pitiful confederate, with awful results.
Leon is also talked into providing the capital to 'legally steal' an apple orchard owned by a fugitive named Herr Rubin (Klaus Abramowsky). After Leon agrees to this dirty deal, the real Rubin shows up, asking for money in exchange for not demanding his property back after the war. Rosa is shocked by this arrangement and strikes a terrible bargain. Leon pays the old man in exchange for Rosa's companionship.'
Things come to a head when Leon must take in a lady from a family that has named him in their will. Circumstances give him no choice but to put her up in his own house. Leon pays some peasants to keep and hide Rosa. She's terrified to go with strangers and is convinced she's being thrown away.
Leon's guilt is such that he hides behind his religion and browbeats Rosa into converting to Christianity, so she can marry him after the war. Such illusions of beneficence are needed to cover his shameful acts of betrayal. Rosa's survival is a miracle, and if Leon had more character he could share the miracle with her. As it is, he buys his way out of responsibility and lets other take his risks for him. In the end he realizes that he's the villain in a story that could have had a beautiful finish.
Armin Mueller-Stahl and Elisabeth Trissenaar are amazing as the ill-fated, emotionally crippled couple. The subject matter lends itself to all manner of exploitation, but director Agnieszka Holland somehow avoids the slightest hint of sordid interest. This may be the most honest, and least exploitative film ever about the experiences of defenseless fugitives from the Nazis.
Image's DVD of Angry Harvest is a quality flat transfer of this West German production, a 1986 nominee for best foreign film. The German subtitles are removable. There are no extras on the disc, but Lee Ferdinand provides helpful insert notes. Director Holland worked with Andrzej Wajda and Krystof Kieslowski in the early 1970s. Several of the actors are known for appearances in Rainer Werner Fassbinder films. Featured player Kurt Raab brings back shuddery memories from Ulli Lommel's The Tenderness of Wolves.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor, Angry Harvest rates: Movie: Excellent Video: Excellent Sound: Excellent Supplements: Insert notes by Lee Ferdinand Packaging: Keep case Reviewed: October 22, 2006
Republished by permission of Turner Classic Movies.
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Buddhism is strongly associated in the Western mind with pacifism
Despite this, increasingly Buddhist countries are mired in insurgent violence
In Sri Lanka to Myanmar and southern Thailand, Buddhists have been urged to take up arms
Analysts say, as with many religions, Buddhism is seen as a part of a national identity
For Thailand's Queen Sirikit, the 2007 attack on a minibus in southern Thailand's Yala province – in which suspected Muslim militants shot eight Buddhists through the head in broad daylight – was simply further proof of what she'd been saying for more than three years.
"We have to help people there to survive. If they need to be trained, train them. If they need to be armed, arm them," she was quoted as saying by one of her military staff, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, Thailand was convulsed by demonstrations condemning the attack.
Her response was to boost her support for the Or Ror Bor or Village Protection Force, the militia the Royal Aide-de-Camp department, under Queen Sirikit's direction, established in 2004.
Unlike other militia in the strife-torn region, whose make up reflects the local demographic, the Or Ror Bor is exclusively Buddhist, is often stationed near temple compounds and is tasked with protecting Buddhist communities.
While Buddhism is associated in the Western mind with pacifism, Buddhist nations such as Thailand, Myanmar and Sri Lanka have been engaged in vicious conflicts.
READ: Why it's too soon to ease pressure on Myanmar
In Thailand, state security is now locked in an increasingly bloody civil war with the Muslim minority near its border with Malaysia, in Myanmar civil strife looms between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State and Sri Lanka has just concluded a protracted civil war with its Tamil minority.
Cycle of birth and death
Buddhism, with its emphasis on karma and samsara – the idea that the cycle of birth and death is driven by the actions of an individual – is traditionally deeply averse to killing, believing it creates negative karma that will be revisited on a person in their own lifetime or in subsequent reincarnations.
So how do the largely Buddhist state security in these countries square their beliefs with the need to fight?
Michael Jerryson, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Florida's Eckerd College and co-editor of the book Buddhist Warfare, says that warfare is part of the human condition irrespective of religion.
"The first thing to remember is that people have a penchant for violence, it just so happens that every religion has people in it," Jerryson told CNN.
History of conflicts
He said that while Buddhism has a 1,600-year well-documented history of monastic-led rebellions and conflicts, the association of Buddhism in the Western mind is with pacifism.
"Buddhism certainly has a lot within its precepts about pacifism. In fact, almost every global religion does," he said.
However, Buddhism differs in that the act of killing is less the focus than the "intention" behind the killing, he said.
"When there are Buddhist monks traveling with soldiers in Sri Lanka and chanting with them and blessing them, their perspective is that they are not trying to support the violence but … it's better to have soldiers with a cool, calm, clear head, with good intentions, than those that are hot headed," Jerryson said.
He said Tibet's Dalai Lama spoke of the same focus on "intention" when asked about the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet.
READ: 100th Tibetan self-immolates in China
"He pointed out that these people are not on drugs, they don't seem insane but they're doing it for a cause - the intention seems to be clear," he said. "This is often used to rationalize violence within Buddhist circles but as we're seeing now with Myanmar and Thailand, cool heads are not prevailing now."
He said Buddhist states often mesh nationalism with Buddhism, justifying war on the grounds that a fracture in the nation state is a tear in the sacred fabric of a land which represents the well-spring of their belief.
"Sri Lanka often speaks about 'the little teardrop island' as the last true vestige of true Buddhism. So when the LTTE, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, tried to separate a portion of that 'teardrop island' it was analogous to attacking the mother," Jerryson said.
Political rhetoric
As with most countries that use violence to solve disputes, Jerryson says the political rhetoric will begin to assume that the means justifies the ends.
"The rhetoric of violence as a defense, and this is not unique to Buddhism, is the idea of violence for the sake of peace," he said. "That although this is an infraction, although we are gaining negative karma, it's for the greater good – prima facie anyway."
Buddhist nation states have historically sought to use Buddhist doctrine to justify war. During the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s, for instance, soldiers were told not only that they were defending Buddhism but that emptiness in Buddhism is the only true reality, therefore, in the end, nobody was being killed, Jerryson said.
Ultimately,added Jerryson, Buddhist countries battling insurgencies will find that their root problems are economic rather than sectarian.
"How many strong Buddhists states are we looking at in the world? How many of them are economically strong? Because with economic strength and vitality comes less likelihood of civil insurrections and wars.
"Of course, we see a lot violence with Islamic countries now, but we also see a lot of poverty with them too."
Identity crisis
For Thailand-based security analyst Don Pathan the problems in Thailand's south have less to do with religion than with identity.
EXPLAINER: Thailand's deadly southern insurgency
"The fact that the Or Ror Bor is exclusively Buddhist, doesn't say anything about Buddhism in ethical terms; it's just something that sets them apart from other security units," Pathan told CNN. "The issue is not about religion."
He said that while there were many factors influencing the insurgency – economic, historical and the fact, he says, that the violence has migrated from rural areas to the cities – he had also noticed a generational dimension to the problems.
"My experience with the older generation is that I still sense a strong fabric of society that still gets along together – people are still friends whether they are Muslim or Buddhist.
"But I don't get that sense very strongly with the younger generation."
He said that while older Buddhists generally speak functional Malay to communicate with their neighbors, younger people have little interest in learning the language, regarding it as something only their grandparents do. The state emphasis on speaking Thai at schools has created problems, he said, reinforcing differences between the two communities.
"And it's not just Thai, but Central Thai – that's how ethnocentric the Thai nation state can be. But they don't seem to understand that's a problem; that we need to accommodate the local identity," Pathan said.
He said the confusion between culture and religion was one of the driving forces behind the violence.
"It's like (groups) that say they practice correct Islam, but what is correct Islam? Islam is a religion not a culture," he said. "The problem (in southern Thailand) is that they don't separate these things; for them it's two sides of the same coin."


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Brings back memories, does it? Post your recollections in the Comments section. Ditto the devices you think we should have included.


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Harley-Davidson looks like it's being slowly nursed back to health, thanks to a combination of TALF loan underwriting (that has since been 100% paid back) of its consumer lending arm and the radical liposuction of personnel and extraneous operations (RIP, Buell). But all the cost-cutting and fat-trimming in the world will do no good if a motorcycle company can't sell motorcycles, and that's a problem for H-D. Its core customer group—Baby Boomers—is hitting retirement age, and although they'll probably be riding strong into the 2020s, their numbers are dwindling, and their kids and grandkids aren't buying motorcycles (all motorcycles, not just Harley-Davidsons) in the same numbers, for whatever reasons. I'll leave the speculation to our posters, as if they need our permission. To court younger buyers, H-D created the "Dark Custom" lineup in 2007, with a lean, matte-finished bobber look dominating the new products. And the latest installment is the 2011 Blackline.
H-D's Dark Custom-izers started with the Softail platform, distinguished by its hardtail-look rear suspension—just right for a bobber. The Twin Cam 96 motor with "Cruise Drive" six-speed transmission gets a gloss-black powdercoat treatment on the cases and covers, with a few tasteful hints of chrome. The chassis gets a new satin-black finish on the frame and swingarm, and an FX front end with blacked-out triples and fork lowers. Braking is with a four-piston caliper and single 292mm disc in front and a single four-piston caliper in back. ABS is an available option. Wheels use spokes and black-finished aluminum rims, with a big 21-inch tire in front and a skinny 140-section rear tire. Skinny is the new fat, I guess. Ready to ride, it's a mere 683 pounds—not bad for a heavyweight cruiser.
The Blackline gets all-new bodywork to finish it off. The fenders are minimal, the fat, curvy tank is brand new and the seat is as low as a dual seat can get—just 24 inches with a rider on board (26.1 inches unleaden). The handlebars are an interesting new two-part "split drag" design, black finished and internally wired for a clean look. The forward-mount controls match the long, low stance of the bike. It's a 21st-Century take on the Billy Bike from Easy Riders to the Captain America of the new 2012 Victory High-Ball.
Will the fresh and minimal styling be enough to draw in new riders? Well, it sure will get them interested, but at a starting MSRP of $15,499, it might be a little out of reach for younger buyers, who are probably more interested in bikes in the sub-$10,000 range. I'll look into how well the Dark Custom range is doing meeting its goals and report back at a later date.


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The Dolphins carried on Monday, business as usual, while other NFL teams undergoing change fired their coaches and one fired both their coach and general manager.
The reason for the relative calm?
According to a source familiar with the situation, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross had never expected Monday would be about possibly firing general manager Jeff Ireland or head coach Joe Philbin and so he wasn't prepared to do either.
The Dolphins owner instead expected Monday to be about his team preparing for a playoff game next weekend.
And that, Ross planned, meant the Dolphins brass would have remained status quo going forward -- with Ireland as the GM and Philbin as the coach in 2014.
But the Dolphins not only lost their penultimate game against Buffalo but their season-finale against the New York Jets as well. And that changed everything.
Suddenly an owner who expected to be making no change at GM or head coach this offseason was forced to begin considering just that. And that, the source says, is exactly what is happening.
Ross is, as he told The Miami Herald Sunday afternoon, "looking at everything."
He is weighing all his options. He is consulting with trusted people. He is considering the ramifications of standing pat as well as making moves.
Understand that this can be complicated.
Fans and even media can call for the ouster of this person or that with no ramifications. Ross doesn't have that luxury. If he decides to fire someone, he has to have a plan in place that he believes will lead to a better situation than the current one.
He cannot, for example, simply fire Ireland and keep Philbin -- the sceanario believed most likely -- without weighing how he would replace his general manager. Would he conduct a search that would be hamstrung by the fact he's already got a coach on board? Would he conduct a search for a GM candidate to whom he'd give authority to fire Philbin? Would he promote a GM from within?
Ross also must consider if he wants to change the structure of the organization.
Does he want a GM and a coach who report only to him, which is the Dolphins current structure? Does he want to hire a czar of sorts to whom the coach and GM would report? Does he want to simply stand pat and not fire anyone?
The Dolphins did nothing on Monday. But apparently owner Stephen Ross was working.


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Record Production at Jubilee Field in Ghana
Kosmos Energy today announced that oil from the Jubilee field offshore Ghana is flowing at a record level.
Jubilee field production is currently in excess of 105,000 barrels of oil per day. Significant production growth has resulted from additional acid stimulation operations performed on some of the Phase 1 wells, as well as the startup of the Jubilee Phase 1A development plan. Two additional acid stimulation operations on Jubilee Phase 1 production wells have been recently performed, at a gross cost of approximately $8 million per well. In total, seven acid stimulation operations have been performed in 2012, with all treated wells showing substantial productivity increases.
The first of five Phase 1A production wells was recently completed and has commenced production to the Jubilee floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. A second Phase 1A production well is expected to be online by the end of January 2013, with the remainder to be drilled, completed, and commissioned in the first half of 2013. The Company has a 24 percent participating interest in the Jubilee field.
Darrell McKenna, Chief Operating Officer, stated, "Exiting the year with Jubilee production at its highest-ever level highlights Kosmos' and the entire Jubilee team's successful execution of our Phase 1 enhancement program, as well as the drilling and completion of new wells in Phase 1A. We have now produced over 50 million barrels of oil at the field. The new production capacity demonstrates not only that we have solved the well productivity issues, but further confirms excellent reservoir performance. Delivery of our project objectives at this world-class field positions us extremely well from an operational and financial standpoint as we exit the year and commence 2013."
On the Deepwater Tano Block, the TEN (Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme fields) Plan of Development was submitted to the government for approval in the fourth quarter of 2012. The TEN development will be Kosmos' second FPSO project in Ghana. In addition, the Deepwater Tano companies are preparing to spud the Sapele-1 exploration prospect, with results anticipated by the end of February 2013. The Company's participating interest in the Deepwater Tano Block is 18 percent.
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Injecting Sulfate Particles into Stratosphere Could Have Drastic Impact on Earth's Ozone Layer
News story originally written on April 24, 2008
A much-discussed idea to offset global warming by injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere would have a drastic impact on Earth's protective ozone layer, new research concludes.
The study, led by Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., warns that such an approach would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by decades and cause significant ozone loss over the Arctic.
The study results are published today in the journal Science Express . The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NCAR's principal sponsor, as well as by NASA and other agencies.
"Our research indicates that trying to artificially cool off the planet may be a perilous endeavor," Tilmes says. "While climate change is a major threat, this solution could create severe problems for society."
"The challenges of global warming mitigation are extremely complex," said Cliff Jacobs, program director in NSF's Division of Atmospheric Sciences. "Continued investment in basic research will allow the most cost-effective solutions--and those of the most benefit to society--to be found."
Climate scientists, concerned that society is not taking sufficient action to prevent significant changes in climate, have studied various "geoengineering" proposals to cool the planet and mitigate the most severe impacts of global warming.
One of the most-discussed ideas is to regularly inject large amounts of sun-blocking sulfate particles into the stratosphere. The goal would be to cool the climate, much as sulfur particles from large volcanic eruptions have cooling impacts.
Since volcanic eruptions temporarily thin the ozone layer in the stratosphere, Tilmes and her colleagues looked into the potential impact of geoengineering plans on ozone.
The new study concluded that, over the next few decades, artificial injections of sulfates could destroy between one-fourth and three-fourths of the ozone layer above the Arctic. This could affect a large part of the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation patterns.
The sulfates would also delay the expected recovery of the ozone hole over the Antarctic by about 30 to 70 years, or until at least the last decade of the twentieth century, the authors warn. The ozone layer is critical for life on Earth because it blocks dangerous ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
"This study highlights another connection between global warming and ozone depletion, which had been thought of as separate problems but are now increasingly recognized to be coupled in subtle, yet profoundly important, ways," says Science Express paper co-author Ross Salawitch of the University of Maryland.
To determine the relationship between sulfates and ozone loss, the authors used a combination of measurements and computer simulations.
They then estimated future ozone loss by looking at two geoengineering schemes--one that would use volcanic-sized sulfates, and a second that would use much smaller injections.
The study found that injections of small particles over the next 20 years could reduce the ozone layer by 100 to 230 Dobson Units. The average thickness of the ozone layer in the Northern Hemisphere is 300 Dobson Units. (A Dobson Unit is a common measure of ozone.)
For large particles, the loss would range from 70 to 150 Dobson Units. The larger figure is correlated with colder winters.
In the Antarctic, the sulfate injections would not significantly reduce the thickness of the already depleted ozone layer. Instead, they would significantly delay the recovery of the ozone hole.
The authors caution that the actual impacts on ozone could be somewhat different than estimated if atmospheric changes led to unusually warm or cold polar winters. They also warn that a geoengineering project could lead to even more severe ozone loss if a volcanic eruption took place at the same time.
"Clearly much more research needs to be conducted to determine the full implications of geoengineering before we may discuss seriously the injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere," says co-author Rolf Müller of the Jülich Research Center in Germany.
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I think the main features of a reflex's LCD are:
- size
- resolution (pixels/dots)
- vari-angle or not
So how important is each one of them? Which one is the most important? What number of pixels is considered enough?
My concrete problem is choosing between Nikon D3100's and Nikon D5100's LCD. The first has 230,000 pixels and is fixed and the latter has 921,000 pixels and is vari-angle. It's one of the differences which makes the D5100 around 200€ more expensive. The question is: is it worth it?